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third-person singular simple present glegs, present participle glegging, simple past and past participle glegged
(Northern England) To glance. examples
plural glegs
(now rare, Northern England) A look or glance. quotations
And besides, you'd do the tomb so well. Everybody feels as if they want a gleg at the skeleton in your vault.Penguin 2006, p. 308
1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]
Alternative form of cleg examples
comparative glegger, superlative gleggest
(Scotland) smart; quick; brisk quotations examples
One patted her neck, and assured her she was the gleggest and bonniest young thing she had ever seen.
1856, Thomas Hamilton, The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, page 279